hi there,

and firstly thx to shawn for 1.0.0 (made me finally start really using gnotella and abandon my old "choice").

but here is something to think about. i am downloading a large file and gnotella adds each server it finds to the server-list. this is fine in general, however the download has been on for some days now. what it comes up to is, that i got >120 servers in the list now. one could think "just fine", but it isn't.

most of the servers are behind a firewall so gnotella requests pushes, which need 60 secs to timeout. this means it takes gnotella over 2 hours (!) to cycle through the list. assuming that the major number of these hosts have dynamic ips and logged off and on again (thus changing their ip) this means gnotella tries the valid hosts only every two hours. this puts my chances for a download to a minimum (i don't think i will succeed this way, but i will let it try some more to be sure).

a problem related to this is - i cant reset the host-list without deleting the old (almost completed) download. or can i? it would really suck to start all over again ...

all the best,